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...CABRERA INFANTE 487 pages. Harper...
Another commercial trend is juvenile creations by celebrities. In Mandy (Harper & Row; $4.95), Julie Andrews tells about an eponymous orphan girl who longs for a family, finds a deserted cottage outside the orphanage grounds, and is adopted by the lord of the local manor. Though Mandy is selling like The Whole Earth Catalog, it mainly proves that Julie Andrews has fondly read The Secret Garden and deserves every success as a singer and film actress...
Good Old Boy by Willie Morris. 143 pages. Harper & Row. $3.95. In North Toward Home, the former editor in chief of Harper's told about a grownup visit to his tiny home town, Yazoo City, Miss., back in 1967. This book, written for his son who lives in New York, celebrates Morris' boyhood in Yazoo before World War II. It is drenched in crawdads, squirrel dumplings, Delta woodlands, and Peck's-bad-boy jokes. But Morris eases out of realism into fantasy and back with no strain, and it's nice to think that somebody more...
...White Nile by Alan Moorehead. 368 pages. Harper & Row. $15. Handsomely and intelligently illustrated in this reissue, this decade-old chronicle of the river, its sources and explorers stands up as fine travel history. The heroes, of course, are the eccentric British explorers of the last century: Burton, Speke, Baker, Livingstone. Through primitive lands, fierce populations and climates, and frequent pestilence, they hunted the Nile to its source in Lake Victoria-as Moorehead puts it, "a sunburst of Victorian courage...
...ideas before he expanded the article into the chapter on intelligence for the basic psychology textbook he is co-authoring. He chose Atlantic because he says he was "writing for the layman." Yet the Atlantic is not the magazine of the masses. According to 1971 statistics provided by Harper Atlantic sales, 65 per cent of its readership graduated or attended college, over 70 per cent have an annual income of $10,000 and over, and over 57 per cent of the household heads are in professional or managerial occupations. Through twisted priorities, Herrnstein, a beginner in the field of intelligence...